Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab

Learn to automate Pure Storage's FlashArray using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into how it works to simplify the automation of Pure Storage solutions.

The purpose of this lab is to provide hands on training on how to start automating your Pure Storage infrastructure.

This lab provides guided, hands-on practice of the following concepts:

• Ansible Engine Overview
• Ansible Galaxy and Collections
• Inventory
• Ad Hoc Commands
• Playbooks
• Variables
• Ansible Vault and Encrypting Variables
• Advanced Ansible Concepts (looping, conditionals, blocks)

• 2 x Pure Storage FlashArrays
• 2 x ESXi Servers (Site 1 and Site 2)
• 1 x vCenter Server
• 1 x Pure on-premises mediator VM
• 1 x Jumphost/AD/DNS Windows Server
• 1 x Linux Jumpbox Server
• 1 x Gitlab Server
• multiple Windows and Linux VMs running on each ESXi server